Leading business group: EU exit will harm Britain

The leader of Britain's biggest business group has said that the country's economic success depends on it remaining a full member of the EU, after senior Tories revealed that more than 150 of the party's MPs would campaign to leave the union in a referendum.

John Cridland, CBI Director-General Credit: PA

CBI director general John Cridland told the Observer that full membership of the EU boosted British jobs, growth and investment.